Andrew Polland

Andrew Polland is the Chief Operating Officer of Blue Owl. Prior to Blue Owl, Andrew was the Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Hoplite Capital Management, L.P., an SEC-registered investment adviser that managed equity long-short and long-only vehicles. Prior to Hoplite, Andrew was the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of MSD Partners, L.P. and the Chief Compliance Officer of MSD Capital, L.P., an SEC-registered investment adviser and Michael Dell’s affiliated family office, respectively, which collectively manage credit/special situation, private equity, real estate and long-short equity strategies. Prior to MSD, Andrew served as the Deputy Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Litigation of Fortress Investment Group LLC, then a publicly listed, SEC-registered investment adviser with various business lines, including credit funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, publicly traded real estate investment trusts and traditional asset management, and the Chief Compliance Officer of its affiliated broker-dealer (Fortress Capital Formation LLC). Prior to that, Andrew was a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. He began his career as a federal law clerk to United States District Court Judge Charles P. Sifton. He received a JD, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS (with honors) in Industrial Labor Relations from Cornell University.